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Fills the lack of an open-source PDF Editor with the capability to draw and add notes not only to the PDF pages but, in future, to a virtually unlimited space.

The executable can be downloadedhere or directly from this Github Repository.

Here a quick demonstration of only a few features:

A more detailed (and constantly extended) list of features:

• PDF Annotating/ Editing
  • Text Boxes (with and without pointers)
  • Highlighting
  • Freehand drawing (Mouseand Pen Support) withline smoothing
  • Different colors available for all marker tools
  • Forms (only lines by now)
  • Erasing
  • Insert Images
• PDF Tools
  • Insert/ Delete Pages
  • Create PDFs
• Additional Features
  • Active Pen Support
  • Automatic Form Detection From Freehand Annotations
  • Various Options For Annotation Tools
  • Dark/ Light Mode (optionallyinvert pdf colors)
  • Fast PDF Loading
  • Split View

SeeCHANGELOG.md for a complete list of latest features in the current release

Right now I'm focussing on the Pen Support. Features like Text Boxes are currently not maintained

• Ctrl-T: Add Text Box
• Ctrl-D: Freehand Draw
• Ctrl-M: Mark/ Highlight Mode
• Ctrl-E: Eraser
• Ctrl-S: Save
• Ctrl-P: Open Preferences
• Ctrl-Q: Quit application
• Esc: Cancel
• Ctrl-Return: Confirm

• Python3.6
• PySide2
• PyMuPDF

1. Set up a python venv

Create a venv

py -m venv venv

Activate it

./venv/Scripts/activate

2. Install the dependencies

Use pip to do so

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run

Open vscode and run one of the predefined launch tasks.

code .

Usesfbs which relies on pyinstaller.